Kroger screws Lansing
It’s official: Kroger will not reconsider its ban on City Pulse.
Word got back to me via a Kroger official in its Midwest division that the Kroger Co. will neither reconsider its national ban on free publications nor entertain looking at its decision on a market-by-market basis with an eye toward retaining papers for which there is a high demand.
Nor will it bother to explain its decision.
In Lansing, more than 3,100 people a week were picking up City Pulse at Kroger until we were booted at the end of September. Given the stores’ high foot traffic, it will be difficult if not impossible to make up such circulation. What part of it can be regained will come at considerably more delivery expense because our average pickup location is far smaller.
Kroger promotes itself as a community ally. But here it has hurt a community whose members count on City Pulse for local news and information.
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